Foreign Architectural Design Detail Album 9. Toyo Ito

Author: Toyo Ito & Associates (Japan)
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 organizes the architectural works from 1984 to the early 1990s, focusing on the "Hachioji City Museum · Future Forest Museum" phase. Chapter 2, starting from the "Competition Proposal Collection for the Japan Buddhist Cultural Center" in the 1990s, marks the author's growing interest in glass. Consequently, works featuring glass curtain walls, flat roofs, and box-like structures gradually increased. This chapter summarizes small office buildings such as "Nakameguro T Building" and "Minami-Yasuda F Building." Chapter 3 summarizes residential designs. Chapter 4, although somewhat repetitive of the 1990s in Chapter 2, primarily outlines projects that use curved surfaces to highlight box-like structures, which might be referred to as fluid bodies.